Newly-discovered immune hubs in our skull may keep our brain healthyWed, 19 Aug 2026 15:23:36 +0000 We may have clusters of immune cells at the back of our skull that help ward off conditions like brain cancer | |
We may now know which neurons dictate when it is time to go to sleepWed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Two clusters of neurons in the brains of mice seem to create the drive to get some shuteye, potentially hinting at a new target for sleep disorder treatments | |
5-year-old brain organoids can sense the passing of timeWed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Brain organoids have been grown and studied for five years, the longest time to date, and their activity suggests they had a sense of time going by | |
Supercentenarians have hypervigilant immune systems that fight off cancerWed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000 People aged 110 or older seem to have a disproportionately high number of immune cells that fight off cancer and infections | |
AI could lower the cost of designing more efficient airplane wingsWed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000 AI agents devised a way to reduce friction of an airplane wing model even without access to a costly computer simulation | |
How wakeful rest may boost brain power in a manner similar to sleepWed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000 To gain the benefits of sleep, it was thought that the whole brain must switch off. But experiments suggest micro-napping neurons can improve memory and learning while we’re awake | |
World may warm by 25 per cent more than current projections suggestWed, 19 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Official projections for how much the world will warm are already catastrophic, and now it appears they significantly underestimate future warming | |
The surprising upsides of living in a reality that repeats for eternityTue, 18 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Having faced the prospect that our minds are random fluctuations in a dead universe, quantum cosmologist Sean Carroll suggests that we may be stuck in an eternally repeating reality | |
Female clones created from the blood of male miceTue, 18 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 A CRISPR-based tool can perform sex reversal on male mouse embryos, reliably turning them into healthy females – a feat that could be valuable for conservation | |
Postbiotic could reduce the risk of brain damage after a concussionTue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Giving mice a byproduct produced by gut bacteria reduced their risk of severe brain damage and cognitive difficulties after a traumatic brain injury | |